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I mean, I only use Photoshop (7) for glorified cut and paste. I really hoped it would make that seemingly simple job a little easier.


I think that's the root of your problem:

If all you're doing is laying out size and position of a photo, and your goal isn't to resample its pixels, then photoshop is simply the wrong tool.

Page layout and vector illustration programs like Corel, Illustrator, PageMaker, InDesign, Quark... All of those let you place photos on a page and resize them to your heart's content without needing to resample them. You could have an incredibly high-rez image and resize it to the size of a postage stamp and it doesn't hurt the pixels. Rasterization and resampling happens at *print* time or *export* time, not at resize time.
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Tony Fabris